Edward C. Green, PhD is an anthropologist and a Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University. He is currently Director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He has worked for over 30 years in international Health. Much of his work since the latter 1980s has been in AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, primarily in Africa, but also in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He served as a public health advisor to the governments of both Mozambique and Swaziland. Of his three books on African AIDS, his 2003 Rethinking AIDS Prevention has been influential in promotion of more evidence-based and culturally responsive AIDS prevention. He has served on 10 boards of directors or advisory boards, including the Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS, and AIDS.org. He is author of six books and over 350 scientific articles, book chapters or commissioned reports.